Reef day is annual event for Mataking island, The Reef Dive Resort. This year, we have our Reef day event on the 5th June 2010 with 105 participants excluding our own resort staffs! We have 3 secondary schools from Semporna and 1 school from Tawau to join us. Not only that, we also have participation from PGA and army based in Mataking island and Pandanan island. Dato Pangiran and family from Pandanan also join us for whole day too=) We also have WWF and Reef check Malaysia to come and join us in this exciting event. Ohya! Not forgetting the valuable guests of The Reef who willing to sacrifice their time to join our activities=)
For the program, we have beach/shoreline cleaning and underwater cleaning; discover reef check (lead by reef check malaysia, Julian Hyde) and awareness talk. After the clean up, the students have their snorkeling session with our free snorkel guide around our house reef. In the afternoon, we have youth ablast treasure hunt program for the students. The session end with prize giving ceremony for the most unique rubbish, greatest amount of rubbish, largest size rubbish and treasure hunt champion. Guess what? We have collected a total of 745.9kg of rubbish in just less than 2 hours time!!!
4pm... departure of all the day trip participants to their respective home... good bye all! Come again next year for our Reef Day 2011!
Arrival of the excited secondary school students participants
opening speech by Mr Luke J. Cox our resort manager
awareness talk on rubbish by Nina Ho from WWF Malaysia
dividing the beach cleaning participants into 4 groups (with 4 team leader behind me)
WOW! our diving boat ready to pick up the 'earth warrior' to respective area for cleaning up activities
'Go go go! we're ready to clean up the rubbish!'
final call for boarding
even our resort manager also participate in the cleanup!
not forgetting, the underwater cleanup team
Hardy, our DM showing the rubbish he collected
it's not easy to pick rubbish under hot sun...
students have free snorkeling session with our snorkeling guides after the clean up=) yuhoo!!
Group photo for our successful reef day beach & underwater cleaning up event!
presentation by nattalee from wwf malaysia for the youth who participate for the evening youth ablast treasure hunt activities
treasure hunt activities in action!
final task - getting the golf ball into its hole! tough tough!!
the champion for the treasure hunt games!
Prize giving ceremony
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